James Baldwin /
editor, Morris Dickstein.
- Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011.
- xi, 455 p. ; 24 cm.
- Critical insights .
- Critical insights. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-439) and index. "Works by James Baldwin": p. 436-437.
On James Baldwin / Biography of James Baldwin / The Paris review perspective / James Baldwin in his time / Exiled in Paris: the beginnings / "This web of lust and fury": Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Baldwin's nineteenth-century white mother / Faith in verse and fiction: James Baldwin's, Phillis Wheatley's, Octavia E. Butler's, and Tananarive Due's creation of a peaceful space / James Baldwin's critical reception / Looking for Jimmy Baldwin: sex, privacy, and black nationalist fervor / The tale of two cities in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / The treacherous body: isolation, confession, and community in James Baldwin / Subversive anti-Stalinism: race and sexuality in the early essays of James Baldwin / "Sonny's blues": James Baldwin's image of black community / The queering of memory: nostalgia and desire in Baldwin's "Going to meet the man" / On James Baldwin's Another country / James Baldwin and the "man" / The committed writer: James Baldwin as dramatist / If the street could talk: James Baldwin's search for love and understanding / Bearing the burden of the blues: If Beale Street could talk / The fire last time / The magic of James Baldwin / James Baldwin: the risks of love / Morris Dickstein -- Barry Mann -- Richard Beck for The Paris review -- Douglas Field -- James Campbell -- Horace A. Porter -- Mildred R. Mickle -- D. Quentin Miller -- Douglas Field -- Charles Scruggs -- Peter Kerry Powers -- Geraldine Murphy -- John M. Reilly -- Tiffany Gilbert -- Lionel Trilling -- F. W. Dupee -- C. W. E. Bigsby -- Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Trudier Harris -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Darryl Pinckney -- Darryl Pinckney.